Zoom

2015 Directed by Pedro Morelli

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Gael García Bernal Alison Pill Mariana Ximenes Jason Priestley Tyler Labine Don McKellar Claudia Ohana Michael Eklund Jennifer Irwin Amanda Barker Clé Bennett J. Adam Brown Michael Caruana Albert Chung Patrick Garrow Ty Kostyk Julian DeZotti Moonlyn Luisa Moraes Rick Roberts Charles Paraventi Giselle Baptista Michelle Baptista

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Review by Vivian ★★

I, too, when drawing the ideal man would just draw Gael Garcia Bernal
Review by Raul Marques ★★★½ 3

A mindfuck of a moonshot.
Zoom is a movie that tells the story of:
- An inflatable-doll-maker who's doing a comic book about a director.
- A director who's working on a film about a model.
- A model who's writing a novel about an inflatable-doll-maker who's...
Needless to say, it's not everyday a picture tries to pull that many narrative layers off, and there's obviously a reason for that. Unless you're some kind of a new Charlie Kaufman, it's extraordinarily unlikely to stitch a premise as daring as this one together, without leaving the impression of merely creating an overly-complicated glorified gimmick, and although that feeling is undeniably present for a substantial amount of the production's wildly uneven duration,…
Review by Felipe Moraes ★ 4

Um Waking Life kaufmaniano do Brasil pós-7 a 1.
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Review by beca ★½

For whatever reason when I read the plot summary for this on Netflix my brain stopped comprehending stuff after "Comic book artist Emma draws her ideal man: Edward" ...so, needless to say, I wasn't prepared at all for this wild ride of a movie.
Review by caino ★★★★½ 2

the final 20 minutes were honestly so good and mindblowing. this movie deserves more attention. it's so cool and stylish and has such a fun and entertaining story. mariana ximenes is gorgeous
Review by Oob ★

One drawback with VOD is that when you walk out on a film in disgust, you find yourself in your backyard. Good thing I had some tomatoes that needed picking. So we're awarding Zoom a bonus half-star for the lovely caprese salad it led to. Otherwise, holy god fuck this movie.
Review by Bruno Viana ★★★★

I really like the Ouroboros concept. And this a an Ouroboros movie. The plot(s) itself it's (are) not the greatest, but the way that they are glued together gives this movie its strength. Also the mix between and indie flick + big artsy production + animation it's very well done and never looses the flow. The acting is cool enough, especially Allison Pill and Garcia Bernal (as an animation)!
Review by gbxavier ★★★★

Ela desenhou ele. Ele dirige a outra. A outra escreve sobre ela. E eu achei os três excelentes.
Review by Robin ½ 1

This was basically unwatchable and I love Alison Pill
Review by Dom ★★★

Gael Garcia Bernal's dick is a central part of this film's plot. For that alone I 100% recommend it.
Review by Juan Bacaro ★★★

Esto es gran mashup de varias cosas. Suerte de multirelato en forma de serpiente que se muerde la cola. Algo ya visto antes, pero acá hay más tetas, penes y tenemos a Gael García Bernal rotoscopiado en exclusiva.
Las influencias son muchas, empezando por la historieta erótica. Desde Charlie Kaufman, pasando por los múltiples niveles que intentó la formidable "Angustia" (de Bigas Luna), hasta llegar, lógicamente a casos como el de "Waking life". También recuerda, y mucho, a "American Splendor" (aunque con un guion inferior) o a la matrioska narrativa de "The Purple Rose of Cairo".
Otro caso de cine 'mise en abyme' -más extremo-. Esta vez en manos de gente brasilera (recomiendo ampliamente la otra película de Morelli, "Entre…
Review by Gabriel Novo ★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

At first, I was lured in by Alison Pill and comic books. Not to mention, a factory full of RealDolls. Then what was supposed to be a cute comedy about a quirky girl turned into something way too meta for its own good and nowhere near as clever. The funny thing about these loosely connected, but utterly ridiculous stories, is that the cartoon world had the best character development out of all three.
The writer of Zoom must've thought that throwing Waking Life and Stranger than Fiction into a blender along with a healthy dash of Tarantino, would've created a delicious milkshake. Instead we have the nasty green goop your friend on a health kick is now drinking. It stinks, is of questionable nutritional value, and depresses everyone involved.
This is how my streak of watching good movies ended. Friends don't let friends watch this garbage.

Recent reviews

Review by kenji_marcos ★½

Tá, isso aqui é uma que quebra o limite entre autor e obra, legal 👍🏻
O que mais...? Nada. É um exercício formal que não leva a lugar nenhum, porque a estória não tem como ter um fim. Definitivamente é memorável, a minha raiva em ver um filme vazio e datado, cujos plots não passam de reflexos da perversão colonizada do roteirista e do diretor. Acaba que é exatamente aquele tipo de filme que tenta desesperadamente ser escutado pelo colonizador e acaba destruindo a imagem do Brasil. Sinceramente, o lugar que a Mariana Ximenes vai não é o Brasil, é a porra daquele bar de Y Tu Mama También (“Mas, ah, pode ter sido o personagem do diretor que pensa no Brasil assim”, vai se fuder mano!)
Review by henrique ★★★½

eu nao dava pra esse filme mas fui MUITO surpreendido ... Nao é perfeito mas é extramente criativo e quase impecavel na parte tecnica só o roteiro que te confunde algumas vezes mas nada que estrague
MARIANA XIMENES E GAEL GARCIA NO MESMO FILME? POR DEEEEEEUS
Hollywood ta perdendo a Mariana Ximenes por bobeira ...
Review by Blem ★★

I fell asleep for the middle section only seeing the set up and the dramatic conclusion. As far as I can tell I had the best experience possible.
Review by RaanShalom ★★

Woulda been better if I watched it when I was younger. Not because it's about boobs and wieners but because adult me got motion sickness from the vomit-inducing camera movements.
It went for unconventional and profound but wound up being incoherent and dumb.
Review by Lucas Amaral Alves ★★

Juntas as três histórias que compõem Zoom não sustentam um filme. Há sim momentos engraçados e/ou empolgantes espalhados pela película, o destaque ficando para as cenas em que as histórias interagem (há algumas belas soluções visuais). O problema é que as personagens são tão mal definidas e as regras de funcionamento de seu universo tão aleatórias (vão sendo definidas cena a cena, à revelia de qualquer lógica) que a narrativa não se sustenta. Conclusão: O recurso narrativo que dá nome ao filme, apesar de criativo, acaba sendo um revés. Afinal, dentro da lógica em frangalhos do filme, nada que se passa ali tem alguma importância (quando, no final, o filme tenta passar uma mensagem, é simplesmente triste).
Review by Antonio Quintero ★★

PART OF MY FANTASTIC FEST MISSES
Its an ambitious story; but it makes no sense. I hated most of this pretentious artist.
Review by HoraceMajeur ★★

Somewhere between Cool World and Take on Me.
Review by courtneighs ★★★★

This snaps.
Review by Electra ½

I watched this due to the cast and without any expectations and only trust in a solid cast of actors, yet I was sorely disappointed. They must have all been in desperate need for money when they got the script for this because this film was disgusting and awful. It made me think less of everyone involved in this project.
Also, considering all the nude sex doll parts, fake tits and fake vulvas freely shown, why was the line drawn at refusing to show Gael Garcia Bernal's cartoon dick?
Also, why can't GCB's character just learn to give som head or provide some nice heavy petting and dry humping?
It is obvious from the rest of the film that the…
Review by J Manchester ★★★★★

So many levels! What an enjoyable film!
Review by leia!! ★★

i purposely tried to fall asleep during this. is that bad?
Review by Abbie ★½

girl... okay...